New Poll Points to Landslide Win For Scottish National Party in Labour Held Seats

With campaigning firmly under way for the United Kingdom General Election on May 7 a new opinion poll spells more gloom for the Labour Party in Scotland. With just over a month to go before the vote the Comres poll for ITV (a commercial TV network in the United Kingdom) looked at the Labour-held seats in Scotland. Opinion polls have consistently shown the SNP on course for a landslide in Scotland. The ITV poll puts their vote up 24.1%, with 43% of the Scottish electorate backing the party.

Meanwhile the Scottish National Party have said they take nothing for granted and will continue to work hard for every vote on 7th May. Commenting, SNP Campaign Director Angus Robertson said:

“This latest poll is another welcome indication of the strong backing for the SNP we are seeing in communities across Scotland, as Labour continues to pay the price for working hand in glove with the Tories during the referendum – and for lining up with them at Westminster to vote for George Osborne’s plans for another £30bn of cuts.

“While this poll is very welcome, we are taking absolutely nothing for granted and we will work harder than ever to win people’s trust on 7th May – so we can deliver jobs and investment, instead of yet more Westminster austerity cuts.

“Electing a strong team of SNP MPs is Scotland’s opportunity to hold real power in the House of Commons, to ensure the things that matter to people in Scotland are firmly on Westminster’s agenda – and to advance the cause of progressive politics across the whole of the UK.

“And by electing more anti-Tory MPs than Tory MPs we can lock David Cameron out of Downing Street – and put an end to the ideological commitment to austerity which is hurting communities across Scotland and elsewhere in the UK."